093_HB3088
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1 AN ACT relating to schools.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Private Business and Vocational Schools
5 Act is amended by changing Section 1.1 as follows:
6 (105 ILCS 425/1.1) (from Ch. 144, par. 136.1)
7 Sec. 1.1. Exemptions and annual filing.
8 (a) For purposes of this Act, the following shall not be
9 considered to be a private business and vocational school:
10 (1) Any eleemosynary institution.
11 (2) Any religious institution.
12 (3) Any public educational institution exempt from
13 property taxation under the laws of this State.
14 (4) Any in-service course of instruction and
15 subject offered by an employer provided no tuition is
16 charged and such instruction is offered only to employees
17 of such employer.
18 (5) Any educational institution (A) which (i) on
19 the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1984 or
20 which on January 2, 2001 enrolls a majority of its
21 students in degree programs and, has maintained an
22 accredited status with the Commission on Institutions of
23 Higher Education of the North Central Association of
24 Colleges and Schools or (ii) on or after the effective
25 date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly
26 enrolls students in one or more bachelor-level programs
27 and is accredited by a national accrediting agency that
28 is recognized by the U.S. Department of Education, and
29 (B) which is regulated by the Illinois Board of Higher
30 Education under the Private College Act or the Academic
31 Degree Act, or which is exempt from such regulation under
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1 either of the foregoing Acts solely for the reason that
2 such educational institution was in operation on the
3 effective date of either such Act.
4 (6) Any institution and the franchisees of such
5 institution which offer exclusively a course of
6 instruction in income tax theory or return preparation at
7 a total contract price of no more than $400, provided
8 that the total annual enrollment of such institution for
9 all such courses of instruction exceeds 500 students, and
10 further provided that the total contract price for all
11 instruction offered to a student in any one calendar year
12 does not exceed $400. For each calendar year after 1990,
13 the total contract price shall be adjusted, rounded off
14 to the nearest dollar, by the same percentage as the
15 increase or decrease in the general price level as
16 measured by the consumer price index for all urban
17 consumers for the United States, or its successor index,
18 as defined and officially reported by the United States
19 Department of Labor, or its successor agency. The change
20 in the index shall be that as first published by the
21 Department of Labor for the calendar year immediately
22 preceding the year in which the total contract price is
23 calculated.
24 (b) An institution exempted under subsection (a) of this
25 Section must file with the Superintendent an annual financial
26 report to demonstrate continued compliance by the institution
27 with the requirements on which the exemption is based.
28 (Source: P.A. 92-62, eff. 1-1-02.)
29 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
30 becoming law.